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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Rockcastle Lumber Co. 

 C. L. Ritter Lumber Co. 



OAK-PIain and Quartered, RED AND WHITE 

 POPLAR CHESTNUT BASSWOOD 



Anything in Hardwoods 



Huntington West Virginia 



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SMiEMeiSEEEJSMSEMS S 



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^Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers^ 



3 V*»n<=>#=>rs:- CIRCASSIAN WALNUT AND ALL 



I vciiccio. OTHER nCURED WOODS 



p THE FREIBERG LUMBER COMPANY 



g OFFICE AND HILl.. CINCINNATI. OHIO 



I OHIO VENEER COMPANY 



Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



t624-S4 COLBBAIN ATENUK 



DAY LUMBER & COAL CO. 



Mfrs. YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 



GENERAI, OFFICE — JACKSON, KY. § 



are regarded as practically prohibitive, especially since they will shut 

 manufacturers of gum lumber out ot territory which has heretofore 

 been profitable on the basis of the old rates. 



The Relation of Production to Markets 



At the bottom of this page Is shown a chart plotting the lumber cut, 

 lumber shipped, and prices of two standard grades of western lumber 

 complied by the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association In col- 

 laboration with the Lumbermen's Information Bureau. The information 

 was compiled on January 25, 1915, and an explanation is hardly neces- 

 sary. 



The remarkable manner In which the lines denoting lumber cut and 

 lumber shipped remain together show that the lumber production of the West 



Coast is under some form of control after all. In a general way the 

 price lines in both flooring and the No. 1 common retain a relative 

 contour approximating the general contour of the production and ship- 

 ment lines. That is, they reach the maximum height from March to 

 May, 1913, in both items as do the lines of production and shipment. 



It will be seen readily that the price curves have not responded to the 

 rapidly Tar.ving conditions of production and shipment as it might have 

 been expected they would. 



Baltimore Exports Still InsigniRcant 



The effect of the war is again strililngly shown in the statement of 

 exports for January of this year, as compared with the same month 

 In 1914, when the value of the lumber and logs, together with other 

 wood products shipped from this port, was not less than three times 

 as large. Some items, like hickory logs, which are used for certain 

 purposes now especially in evidence, made gains, but in the main there 

 was a heavy shrinkage, which is likely to attain even greater proportions 

 now that steamship lines have decreed a virtual embargo on shipments 

 to certain British ports, while the advance in the ocean freight rates is 

 so high as to be practically prohibitive. Oak lumber, for instance, fell 

 off more than fifty per cent, and the shrinkage in poplar was even 

 heavier. Exports of certain items disappeared entirely during the month 

 Just ended. The comparative statement is as follows : 



Quantity 

 Feet 



Logs, hickory 76,000 



Logs, walnut 53,000 



Logs, all others 14,000 



Lumber, oak 725,000 



Lumber, pitch pine 50,000 



Lumber, all other pine 



Lumber, poplar 114,000 



Lumber, spruce 42,000 



Lumber, all others ; . . . .348,000 



.Shooks, all others 779 



Staves 49,468 



.VU other kinds of lumber 



Doors 



Furniture 



Trimmings 



All other manufactures of wood 



1915 



-January- 



Value 



$ 2,773 



3,920 



425 



26,000 



1,860 



5,185 

 1,470 

 15,380 

 857 

 3,075 

 7,975 



'"228 



' 6,839 



$65,987 



1914 



Quantity 



Feet 



24,000 



184,000 



40,000 



1,618,000 



98,000 



19,000 



380,000 



974,000 



319,000 



807 



150,130 



Value 



946 



10,893 



1,930 



54,149 



3,133 



700 



20,407 



30,208 



16,515 



888 



6,200 



21,218 



8,828 



1,105 



1,113 



11,963 



$190,196 



Big Offering of National Forest Timber 



The United States Forest Service is offering for sale 382,000,000 feet 

 of timber on the Crater and Paulina forests In Oregon. This is the 

 largest body of timber ever placed on the market In Oregon by the Forest 

 Service, and It stands among the largest of national forest timber 

 offerings. 



The timber is in two blocks, one of 7,120 acres, just east of the Crater 

 Lake national park ; the other ot 17,560 acres on the watershed of 

 Bear creek, near Upper Klamath lake. In the Paulina forest. Both 

 tracts are tributary to Klamath Falls, Oregon. All but 10,000,000 feet 

 Is western yellow pine of good quality, the rest being sugar, lodgepole 

 and western white pine. The location and topography of the larger 

 area are described as excellent for logging and that of the smaller as 

 fair. A cutting period of nine years will be allowed a purchaser of 

 the smaller tract, twelve years for the larger, ^nd a maximum of sixteeo 

 years to a purchaser of both tracts. It is estimated that an investment 

 ot $340,000 will be necessary for an operation on the larger tract. 



Three Year Cat and Shipment Report from 80 Identical Mills Showing the Relation of Shipments and Prices to the Cut. 

 1912 1913 1914 



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